Farewell Netflix!

This makes the trip to the mailbox sooo worth it.

Today was a sad day, I cancelled my netflix membership (mere minutes before they could bill me for another month) and also mere minutes before they shipped me out 2 more DVDs that were in my que that I now have 7 days to return :)

It was doubly sad because I associate Netflix with summer vacation...a time when the rental of videos is an integral part of finding relatively low-cost ways to stay amused and catch up on all those things you miss doing 60+ hours a week of school work. Netflix is hands-down one of the best ways to rent videos as long as you have the patience to wait a day to get the video you want instead of going for instant gratification. It also pays for a month of service within 5 videos, which if you're like me can be achieved easily inside of a week. You'll really never want to go back to spending $4 a pop at a video store and getting some scratched up DVD that you have to return in a couple of days and deal with running into ex's or people you frankly just don't want to see. Call it one more step to complete societal isolation, but I think it's something that is helping to keep the near-monopoly of the video rental business in a much-needed check.